One is my experience in opera where I trained in Queensland and then spent nine years in Europe singing, most notably at the Aldeburgh and Salzburg Festivals and fulfilling a two-year soloist’s contract at the Vienna State Opera. The other part is my passion is for people and learning in organisations. That journey has taken me through an economics degree, time in BHP in Quality Management and many years of training in Human Resource Development all over Australia.

My PhD brought these two passions together in a study I have named Vocal Intelligence. Whereas most ignore voice altogether and many see it as a manipulable tool for persuasive communication alone. From my unique perspective I see voice as a much richer creative tool for effective personal and professional development and even a source of deeper organisational understanding and cultural awareness.

As a translator between these fields I see it as my challenge to make this information as accessible as possible. How I manage that is for me to know and you to find out! I can, however, guarantee that it will be with a sense of humour and a focus on highly participative activities to help others along their palpable journey of transformational change.

While I am based outside Melbourne in the beautiful Yarra Valley, today I travel extensively to present keynote addresses, train and coach in a multitude of organisations nationally.

Dr Louise Mahler B.Econ; B. Mus; Post Grad Dip Music; L.Mus.A; Master of Applied Science.